# War Song iMix **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556 "2007-01-19T04:00:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/41 "2007-01-19T22:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] I’m amazed it’s taken so long for anyone to mention it, but you absolutely must have Holst’s “Mars”. Yeah, it’s all instrumental, but at the same time, there’s no doubt at all what it’s about. [/QUOTE] The roman god of war? A planet named after such? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/42 "2007-01-19T22:59:31Z")
“Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/43 "2007-01-19T23:00:11Z")
_This War Is Over_, Melissa Etheridge _Battle Without Honor Or Humanity_, Tomoyasu Hotei _Patton: Attack_, Jerry Goldsmith _Fife and Gun_, Randy Edelman, from the soundtrack to the movie _Gettysburg_. The Main Title works well, too. Come to think of it, buy the whole album. _Celtic Warrior_, Steve McDonald ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/44 "2007-01-19T23:34:49Z")
[Learning to Crawl](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pretenders/back+on+the+chain+gang_20110705.html) - **The Pretenders** “2000 Miles” “Back on the Chain Gang” “Middle of the Road” “My City Was Gone” “Thin Line Between Love and Hate” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/45 "2007-01-19T23:45:55Z")
Wrong thread, obviously. Dagnabbit. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/46 "2007-01-19T23:57:34Z")
[Ballad of Rodger Young](http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1981/38405/west_point/songs/RodgerYoung.htm) [Blood on the risers](http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1981/38405/west_point/songs/bloodontherisers.htm) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/47 "2007-01-20T00:02:25Z")
Disposable Heroes - Metallica The Dogs of War - Pink Floyd 2 Minutes 2 Midnight, The Trooper, Aces High - Iron Maiden Manhattan Project - Rush Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance The War - Angels and Airwaves Jesus Walks - Kanye West (lyrically it’s not really about war, but it sounds like an Army cadence and it was on the soundtrack for Jarhead) How about the entire CD “War” by U2? New Years Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Seconds, etc? What about every song ever written by Rage Against the Machine? ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/48 "2007-01-20T02:31:53Z")
If you like “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and similar somber songs, check out “Bomber’s Moon” and “Accrington Pals” by Mike Harding, and for a view from the home front, “Mothers, Daughters, Wives” by Judy Small, recorded by The Corries (there are other recordings, The Corries is the one I have). Irish and Scottish traditional music are loaded with war songs, from rousing (“The Haughs of Cromdale”) to somber (“The Flowers of the Forest”). “The Rising of the Moon” and “Hey Johnnie Cope” have already been mentioned. There are entire album collections of Irish rebel songs. “The Minstrel Boy”, “The Foggy Dew” and “Scots Wha Hae” are just a few of the ones worth checking out. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/49 "2007-01-20T02:44:33Z")
Plenty of punk era songs. Two that I think transcend the genre: War - DOA (Edwin Starr cover). Best cover made of this song by far and only version that I prefer over the original. No Fucking War - The Dicks. Played live outside the DNC in San Francisco in 1984 lessee, just some off the cuff punk songs. Pretty much every recorded punk group had an appropriate song: let’s have a war - Fear Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedy’s Live fast die you - Circle Jerks 1945 - Nagasaki Nightmare - Crass Vietnam - Minutemen ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/50 "2007-01-20T02:52:50Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] And let’s not forget (or maybe we should) “The War Song” - Culture Club [/QUOTE] I wish I could, but it’s been running through my head ever since reading the thread title! Actually, it’s really a better song than it sounds at first listen. A couple other suggestions off the top of my head: The Kinks’ “Some Mother’s Son” > [@](#): > > Two soldiers fighting in a trench > One soldier glances up to see the sun > And dreams of games he played when he was young > And then his friend calls out his name > It stops his dream and as he turns his head > A second later he is dead and possibly also their “Mr. Churchill Says” Richard X. Heyman’s “Civil War Buff” Billy Joel’s “Goodnight Saigon” ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/51 "2007-01-20T03:17:52Z")
If you are into country: Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue by Toby Keith. Beer for my horses by Tobe Keith. Something to be proud of by Montgomery Gentry. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/52 "2007-01-20T05:09:49Z")
**Sepultura** - War **Manowar** - Call to Arms **Manowar** - Hail and Kill **Crash Worship** - Procession **Crash Worship** - You Light Up My Life The most interesting is probably Crash Worship’s two. They are almost entirely instrumental, but sound essentially like if you were to take a war scene and then time up all the screams, gun shots, and whatnot to create a rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/53 "2007-01-20T05:36:23Z")
Well, as an Unreconstructed Yankee there’s the one I want to sing when the Confederate re-enactors go by in parades, “Marching Through Georgia” by anybody. On the other hand, Country Joe also recorded an LP (can’t find it on CD) of Robert W Service’s poems written while he was an ambulance driver in WWI. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” they ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/54 "2007-01-20T05:44:03Z")
:smack: How could I forget **War Again** by Oingo Boingo?! [Lyrics](http://www.lyricscrawler.com/song/110339.html) > [@](#): > > Don’t you know this is better than, any video friend, it’s an action movie… > Here we go, watch the bad guys get their butts kicked, and it makes me feel good. > Don’t you know it’s nintendo, really gets the blood flowing thru my veins now > Don’t you know it’s a feel-good show, electronic bliss, it’s a video, video ---
**Author:** ![Foolonthehill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Foolonthehill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foolonthehill)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/55 "2007-01-20T06:54:16Z")
Jimi Hendrix’ version of _All Along The Watchtower_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/56 "2007-01-20T07:09:32Z")
Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War You can kiss your ass goodbye! ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Tungsten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@Drake\_Tungsten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drake_Tungsten)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/57 "2007-01-20T15:45:37Z")
I tell you what, any list that includes the Gettysburg soundtrack, The Dead Kennedys, and Oingo Boingo is a good list. For some reason I forgot about Rage Against the Machine, so thanks for the reminder. Same for Toby Keith. ryobserver, some good suggestions as well. sage rat, I’m going to check out those Crash Worship songs. I don’t care what everyone else says, Dopers are fine upstanding citizens with good musical taste. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/58 "2007-01-20T16:12:23Z")
Most of _The Final Cut_ album by **Pink Floyd** and, I know it has been mentioned already but, _When the Tigers Broke Free_ should be included in any war compilation. _Momma,Look Sharp_ from the musical **1776** _Ballad of the Alamo_ by **Marty Robbins** - Battle of New Orleans\* by **Johnny Horton** ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/59 "2007-01-20T17:28:06Z")
Speaking of **Johnny Horton** , he also did “[Sink the Bismarck](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRbPhF5P80).” ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556/60 "2007-01-20T17:50:12Z")
The Horst Wessel Lied. Dodgy lyrics but a cracking tune [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-song-imix/388556.md?page=4)